Strip City

Author : Lily Burana
Publisher : Miramax Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786886753
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strip City written by Lily Burana and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 2003-02-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Burana had given up on stripping years before she accepted a marriage proposal-but decided to strip her way from Florida to Alaska before settling down. Lily, now a successful journalist, looks back at stripping with a writer's perspective. Her humorous yet hard-edged memoir deftly describes funky clubs and offbeat characters, the exhilaration that overtakes a dancer on stage-and the darker realities that assail her heart when she's out of the spotlight. Strip City is both a hugely entertaining insider's account of a hidden world and a moving voyage of self-discovery. Lily Burana has written for The New York Times Book Review, GQ, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Spin, and Salon. She lives in New York State. This is her rst book.

Author : Eugene P. Moehring
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874179564
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reno, Las Vegas, and the Strip written by Eugene P. Moehring and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene P. Moehring analyzes the development of Reno and Las Vegas since 1945 with special emphasis on the years after 1970. Major factors that shaped the development of both cities were the growth of corporate gaming and megaresorts and increased personal leisure and affluence. Moehring provides an engaging, informative, and readable history of the divergent paths that Reno and Las Vegas took over the past forty years. Reno, the nation’s gambling mecca in the 1950s, led the way, developing the successful tourist economy that Las Vegas later embraced. Through the 1970s the two cities resembled each other greatly, but Las Vegas grew to achieve global significance, while Reno slowly declined, searching for new industries to power its future. Moehring shows that the development of the Las Vegas Strip was crucial to southern Nevada’s success. The casinos, hotels, and entertainments of the Strip, and the workers they supported, formed a new urban center ringed by offices, residences, shopping, and a major university. In effect, it became a third metropolis, governed by county commissioners, larger than Reno and Las Vegas combined. Moehring brings the story of the three cities to the present day, examining lessons learned from the Great Recession and the efforts under way in all three metropolises to diversify their economies. Moehring makes an important contribution with the only current study of Nevada’s cities, focusing on urban development issues rather than social history or the gaming industry. As the service economy continues to grow, not only in Nevada but throughout the United States, Moehring’s work has many implications for urban studies and particularly the study of urban development in other metropolitan areas.

Author : Missouri. Courts of Appeals
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cases Determined by the St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield Courts of Appeals of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. Courts of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026203574X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strip written by Stefan Al and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Northwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2644 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo written by Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 2644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Municipal and County Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 958 pages
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Download or read book The Southern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terry LaBan
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740763563
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edge City written by Terry LaBan and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Info About Edge City: A Comic Strip Collection by Terry and Patty LaBan Edge City is the first cartoon to feature the Ardins, a Jewish family maneuvering to balance relationships and tradition with dual careers, overbooked kids, long commutes, and pervasive high-tech gadgetry. The Ardins are a hip Jewish-American family leading mile-a-minute lives with two kids, two careers, two cats, and several computers. This family epitomizes our decentralized, high-tech world where everything is literally a click away-everything but the time to enjoy a peaceful moment. The first book collection of Edge City introduces readers to husband, father, weekend rocker, and busy courier service owner Len and his constantly self-improving wife Abby, whose titles include professional therapist, mom to children Colin and Carly, and daughter to active older adults Morris and Edna. Edge City is nationally syndicated to papers ranging from the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Houston Chronicle.